Subject: Re: Axe
From: "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 21:36:13 -0400

I'm old enough to remember when he lectured JRB about it being HRC's turn.
Now he's angling for a consulting gig with JRB 2020.
At some point I need to stop being shocked by stuff like this.

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]
> wrote:

> Now Axelrod thinks JRB is the right candidate?!?……….
>
> Democrats Must Seek Antidote to Trump in 2020
> <https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/06/democrats-must-seek-antidote-trump-2020/>
> July 6, 2017 at 10:07 am EDTBy Taegan Goddard
> <https://politicalwire.com/author/tdg/>46 Comments
> <https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/06/democrats-must-seek-antidote-trump-2020/#disqus_thread>
>
> John Harwood
> <http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/liberal-firebrands-may-not-be-best-hope-for-democrats-in-trump-era.html>:
> “However hostile the party’s feelings about Trump, their challenge may get
> even steeper the closer the nation draws to the 2020 presidential contest.
> David Axelrod, the chief strategist in Barack Obama’s breakthrough 2008
> victory, notes a recurrent pattern: Voters seek qualities in their next
> president that compensate for what they consider defects in the last one.”
>
> Said Axelrod: “In 2020, there will be a market for an antidote to him.
> There will be a receptivity to someone who offers big ideas about how to
> insure a fair shot and economic insecurity for the broadest number of
> Americans in a rapidly changing economy, rather than promising a return to
> an irretrievable past. There will be a market for a more healing and
> unifying figure who can speak to our common values and concerns as
> Americans rather than mining resentment and sowing antagonism.”
>
> “If he’s right, harsh denunciations of the wealthiest 1 percent won’t
> prove the most effective Democratic answer to Trump’s denunciations of
> illegal immigrants. *That dynamic would give an advantage to potential
> White House candidates with a more consensus-oriented message, such as Joe
> Biden or Cory Booker, rather than Sanders or Warren.”*
>
>
>
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